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I'm in love with an old friend who's perfect for me; problem - he's married to someone else!?

I've known this man for about 8 years and we should have gotten together a long time ago but he was too shy to ask me and I was seeing his friend and didn't think he'd ever be interested in me. By the time I got to know him, he had a live-in girlfriend who later became his wife. One night it came out that he had liked me all along but didn't think he stood a chance. We did some things we shouldn't have. We tried to stop but couldn't. Finally, he stopped talking to me altogether. Now he's started talking to me again and though we haven't seen one another, we've both told one another that the feelings are still there. He often tells me that he regrets his past decisions to be with her and his fear of trying with me. I tell him that I regret having not seen it back when things would have been easier for us. I've never advised him to leave her because I feel that would be wrong of me but I really want to be with him and we are in love. What should I do?
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Let me just clarify that we were friends for many many years before anything happened between us (so obviously I know him rather well, it is not just lust) and that we have not seen each other nor have we discussed seeing each other since we started talking again. I wouldn't actually do anything with him again at this point b/c I don't want him to be in that position again. Contrary to popular belief, I AM thinking of his wife's feelings as well -- I would not want to be married to a man who wanted someone else. I'm actually a little ashamed that so many women around here seem to view men as property -- he does not "belong" to her and you can not "steal" a human being. With that said, please try to provide me with solid, real life advice...


    




Ă¢?£China Ă¢?Â¥ DollĂ¢? 
You should stop being a home-wrecker.
People like you disgust me.

I don't get it person below me, you said it takes two to tango. Is this person not part of the two that tangoed?


Evil Red
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I will be honest I didnt even read your entire question. You KNOW what the problem is he is MARRIED!!!!!!!! That is enough said! Why would you want to ruin someone else's life just to be happy? And why in the hell dont you think that he would do that to you? You are no different he is a dog and if you lay with dogs you rise with fleas. Dont be a homewrecker....she might come find you (his wife) and after slapping the sh-- out of him beat you down as well. Dont become a Lifetime movie! Leave him alone, d--k comes dime a dozen! Meaning there are other men, find one that is single! Would u like if it happened to you?


pugsbaby
dude, get out, get out NOW.

this guy is just laying the ground work so he can come and play with you when he feels like it.

he's lying through his teeth and isn't man enough to be honest to you, his wife, nor himself. this type will lie and lie and lie, meanwhile the women in his life will be stuffed around and wonder what they did wrong.

the answer is easy, get away from him.

he can't be perfect for you, coz if he was, you'd be together and not him and his wife and his cheating ways.


highchaparral2006
Back off. It's a lost cause. Do you really want a cheater?


todieisgain_121
Leave him alone. He has a commitment to his wife.


Jessica
I'm in love with an old friend who's perfect for me; problem - he's married to someone else!? look at your question I know I'm probably not going to get best answer because this isn't going to be what you want to hear but it contradicts itself simply because if you were perfect for each other he would be single. So my advice is to leave him alone. Even if you two were in 'love' he decided he loved who he was married to at one time and is probably going thru the "what ifs" with you... and whose to say if he leaves her for you he won't leave you for someone else? I hope it works out for you either way :0/


jeremy45
Leave that man alone. Not to get you down or anything but why mess up a happy home?


good tree
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You are doing the right thing in not seeing him or talking to him. It might be comforting to think that if he leaves her, it will be the 2 of you together who broke up his marriage, but let's face it, he wouldn't leave her if you weren't around. If I were you I'd do the right thing again and leave the area. Put temptation out of his reach and don't be the cause of breaking up the marriage.


Linda
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Do the right and honerable thing and LEAVE HIM ALONE. Im sorry that you have regrets, Im sorry that you both left things too late, but he is now married and you have no place in his life. He needs to get real and get back intouch emotionally with his wife as he made vows with her and not with you. Put yourself in her shoes, how would you like to know that your husband played around with another girl and she is now persuing him.......be honorable .......stay away and let their marriage have a chance to work. You time with him passed.


DRLE
IF HE WAS FERFECT FOR YOU HE WOULD BE WITH YOU. STOP BEING SELFISH AND LEAVE HIM AND HIS WIFE BE HAPPY. WHAT IF YOU WERE HIS WIFE HUH???????


luckystar
THE PROBLEM IS YES HE MARRIED, SO YOU NEED TO LEAVE HIM ALONG, THE FACT THAT HE TELL YOU THESE
THING DOES NOTHING, HE HAS A FAMILY, IF HE UNHAPPY
WITH HIS MARRIAGE THEN HE SHOULD GET OUT OF IIT.
BUT BOTH OF YOU NEED TO MOVE ON, IF IT MEANT TO
HAPPEN IT WILL, BUT FOR NOW. LEAVE HIM ALONG,
AND FIND SOME ONE ELSE. RIGHT NOW HE BELONG TO
SOMEONE ONE ELSE.


Avalon
tough then..find your own man


Tiberius
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Leave him be to focus on his marriage. Put it in God's hands. If you two are meant to be together, then it will happen. If he leaves his wife FOR you, then there will come a day when you will be in the exact position his wife is in now. Whatever you do, do not be the source of their marital destruction.

Good luck


iwantsomeonetoeatcheeesewith
well, marriage is the be all and end all of it all.
in the past maybe. but with divorce rates going up faster than even inflation. u ahve a good chance of bagging him.
asking him to divorce her is the only logical conclusion.
what else can u do?
it is the only way. if u sleep with him while he's married,
how can u ever trust a man like that?
good luck.


Mother of three
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He was not meant for you. Destroying marriages is a sin in the eyes of God. One day you are going to be married, and you wouldn't like for anybody to destroy your marriage.


Noadonis
Tough.


JUSEve
Sorry to say this but when they decided to get married they are saying that they belong to each other.He is a selfish man.Who gets 100% of him?
He is not in love with you.He is in love with being in love with you i.e.LUST and the expectation of experiencing something new is exciting.
You are not perfect for each other.He made his wife his perfect woman when he got married to her.

I am in this present situation but I am the wife but unfortunately she is not the only woman that he has outside our marriage.Why doesn't he leave?An excuse to moan about something to her/them so that he can see them..Either way HE IS ONLY THINKING OF HIMSELF..

Get away from him.Your perfect love is out there looking for you but you are stuck looking out for a love that is already committed to another.You deserve someone better


eastern_mountain_outdoors
You need to step away. If he were to leave his wife he needs to do it because he's not happy. Not because he wants to be with you. It is way to easy to get clouded and fall for somebody else when you're not happy at home.


alwayssmiling
you did not want to advice to leave his wife cause its wrong,well you even thinking of him in any way is wrong too,hes married and if he made a mistake about it he should be able to do that cause the marriage wont work not because you got in the middle of it.


AJ
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He is not perfect for you... move on.


dark man
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just spread your legs for him, then come back and ask for help as to why your life is miserable


Tone R
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been there, done that, fails badly, leaves you feeling worse. but hey, if it works you will never know sadness again. dont dwell in the past, it will bring you down and destroy you. like i said been there, done that. now in a bad place and feelin really low. moving away soon to forget her. please be careful


Mr Mackey
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You need to move on. He is married. He is not perfect for you.


gvih2g2
It seems to me that perhaps you don't know this guy quite as well as you think you do. I'm afraid I don't have a lot of time for him because I've seen the train-wreck that resulted from just such a scenario (in that case the man wasn't married to the other woman, but she was pregnant with his child).

Basically, he wants to have his cake and eat it. What he's telling you about "regretting decisions" is just a ploy to get you to sleep with him again. You may be in love with him, but he's using you.

In the scenario I mentioned above, the woman in your position decided not to go for it and is now happily married to someone else. The man went back to his girlfriend, then dumped her (now with two kids) for the next woman that caught his eye and fell for his charms. Just as he had dumped his wife and two more kids to be with that girlfriend (so she knew what she was taking on).

Some men are unable to commit, but talk a great relationship - sounds to me like he's one of them.


ottillie s
IF HE HAS DONE YOU ONCE HE WILL JUST WANT IT AGAIN


Life lover
Why would you even think of hurting the wife to satisfy your selfish needs. find someone else to chase after before you really get hurt. Never get involved with a married man. You'll just find out your a selfish idiot with no control. Remember all is fair in lave and war. If he does it to her he'll do it to you.


lilsis2576
NOT TO JUDGE BUT WHEN THERE IS A THIRD PARTY IN A RELATIONSHIP YOUR MIND STARTS PLAYING TRICKS PLEASE DO NT BE THE REASON FOR THERE DIVORCE IF ITS MEANT FOR U TO LET NATURE TAKE ITS COURSE STOP TALKING AND TRY PURSUING YOUR OWN LIFE PLEASE DO NT TAKE WHAT I SAY AS BEING MEAN BUT JUST LIKE U SAY U LOVE HIM SO DOES HIS WIFE DO NT GET IN BETWEEN THERE MARITAL ISSUES


bobbi
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You shouldn't have put yourself and others in this position in the first place!! How dare you interfere with someone elses husband! Mind your own business and find a new relationship with someone who is single!!


monkeyface
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He is married. Therefore out of bounds.
Forget him & move on.


MR R SOLE
I agree with 'the china doll'. You need to get your own man. stop messing peoples marriages up and screwing the kids up at the same time.





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